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Brilliant British breakfasts

Surf shack, vegan café or city terrace? The top 32 places for a tasty start to the day…

1. Hullabaloo Vegan Café, Ipswich

This local gem in the Saints area of Ipswich, a community of indie shops, cafés and restaurants close to the waterfront, was the town’s first plantbased café and has built up a loyal following thanks to its small seasonal menu of locally sourced ingredients. Go for its legendary Capel mushrooms on homemade sourdough in a Madeira cashew crème, stay for its gluten-free waffles with seasonal rhubarb and a side order of scrambled tofu and spinach (@hullabalosuffolk).

2. Pritchard + Ure, London NW1

A curated space for book lovers and epicures. The small, seasonal breakfast menu in this rarefied bookshop-cumdining destination above Camden Garden Centre includes wild and field mushrooms with wild garlic pesto on sourdough with shakshuka and dukkah (pritchardandure.com).

3. Albert’s Schloss, Manchester

Cracking cruffins and kronuts, great decor, Alpine crêpes, Turkish eggs and German sausages draw in a loyal crowd at Albert’s Schloss, Manchester’s Bavarian bier palace (albertsschloss.co.uk).

4. Pellici’s Café, London E2

A quintessential Italian post-war café with a primrose art deco facade and marquetry inside, Pellici’s is Grade II listed. Have the Lot (Full English, meat or veggie), served at Formica tables in this epic family-run Bethnal Green greasy spoon (epellici.co.uk).

5. Birchwood Restaurant, Ticehurst

A seasonal all-day breakfast menu, including duck leg with crumpet

or pastrami cured sea trout, awaits at bucolic Birchwood Restaurant. Ingredients are locally sourced or foraged and the vast raised terrace sits in 46 acres of woodland (birchwoodrestaurant.com).

6. Rockwater, Hove

Seaviews! Crab Benedict! Rockwater is a vibey clubhouse hotspot on Hove’s Western Esplanade. For sea dippers and early risers, its Love Shack (opens 7.30am) on the beach serves tasty breakfast brioche rolls (rockwater.uk).

7. Crwst, Cardigan

Brunch is the ticket at this bright, trendy Cardigan craft bakery. The Full Welsh Brekkie includes Crwst’s signature beans, the halloumi is made locally, and the blow-out Sausage & Egg Mcdoughnut is filled with melted cheese (crwst.cymru).

8. Jubilee Pool Café, Penzance

It’s filled brioche buns all the way after a swim in the salt water or geothermal pools at Penzance’s sublime art deco Jubilee Pool Café (jubileepool.co.uk).

9. Turtle Bay, Birmingham

Soak up the limitless prosecco and cocktails with Caribbean specials, such as scrambled ackee and sweet-fried plantain or a soft bara roti stack with fried chicken at Turtle Bay Brindley Place’s bottomless brunch. Outside tables available (turtlebay.co.uk).

10. Teuchters Landing, Edinburgh

This dockside bar in Leith offers kedgeree by the mug, Loch Creran Argyll oysters and carnivorous and vegan versions of the Big Breakfast, which includes delicious black pudding, haggis and tattie scones (teuchtersbar.co.uk).

11. Fallow, St James’s, London SW1

Sustainable, plant-loving, high-end and glamorous, Fallow’s veggie full breakfast includes crushed courgette and pea spinach with confit garlic. Its talk-ofthe-town mushroom parfait features in the Mushroom Royale, one of four signature brunch-tastic croissant rolls (fallowrestaurant.com).

12. The Cabin Beach Café, Penzance

A breakfast special on the South West Coast Path offering sensational views of Mount Bay from the terrace. Serving big fry-ups, the café is dog-friendly and a much loved pit-stop for campers and walkers (thecabinbeachcafe.co.uk).

13. The Temple Café, Isle of Harris

Reward a swim off Scarista’s sandy beach with fresh pastries, on-site roastery coffee or botanical-infused soft drinks at the Temple Café, a new version of an old stone temple with unparalleled views across the bay to the deserted isle of Taransay (templeharris.com).

14. Olives, Norwich

Famous for its BBQ breakfast and vegan special, featuring vegan black pudding and chickpea scramble, Olive’s new range of Gorillas cheese toasties includes the King Kong with pulled pork. Put a tune on the free jukebox and tuck in (olivesofnorwich.com).

15. Whelk Coppers Tearoom, Norfolk

Everything is fresh and local at Whelk Coppers, an old-school tea room with fairytale iron gates allegedly designed by Walt Disney. Serving French toast and a full English, the former fisherman’s cottage is bang on the promenade overlooking Sheringham’s Blue Flag beach (whelkcoppers.com).

16. Café Sobar, Nottingham

If you’re hankering after a trad breakfast, you’re in safe hands at the relaxing

Robert Carlyle

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